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Inchara S

Bengaluru

Summary

  • Dynamic leader of application testing teams offering 13 years of experience in managing high revenue, mission-critical projects, overseeing teams/projects application testing activities.
  • Certified in "Agile Scrum Master" from International Scrum institute. Having 6 years of working experience in managing Agile projects.
  • Having good experience in setting up larger agile team and co-ordination between offshore and onshore.
  • Provide end-to-end testing support for time and business critical projects by leading test strategy, plan, execution, documentation,defect management and status reporting.
  • Worked as lead for UAT testing, worked closely with business team.
  • Good experience in testing co-ordination between offshore and onshore, multiple vendors in larger projects, worked as escalation point of contact.
  • Implemented automation testing using tools like Selenium, QTP and SOAPUI.
  • Implements core project management tools, methods and best practices to assemble testing .plans that align with the project/release and with expectations of sponsors and stakeholders, and meets business needs.
  • Good Experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously and interacting different stake holders

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Qa Test Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2016 - Current

Nationwide Insurance:

  • Responsible for Line test planning, test estimation, test execution and defect management. Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality and function before it was released.
  • Working as a Test Co-coordinator between onshore and offshore team.
  • Responsible for defect management, status reporting.
  •  Working in Agile environment/Methodology. 
  • Leading a ETL testing team as part of nice- ICM Bonus calculation for Nationwide agents.
  • Review and Approves all project Test Deliverable.
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/multiple lines. Handing multiple testing projects with in the Line.
  • Working closely with Business team as part of UAT testing.

Test Manager

Leidos
07.2013 - 05.2016
  • At&T - eStrategy Project
  • Responsible for offshore set up, ramp up, testing team set up.Managed a 40 member project testing team. 
  • Responsible for Test Approach,Planning,Estimation, Test Scenarios/Scripts, Test Execution Cycle Plans.
  • Responsible for implementation test factory best practices within the project. Working in Agile environment/Methodology.
  • Responsible for test automation set up using selenium. Review and Approve all project Test Deliverable.
  • Co-Ordination between different stake holders/Multiple vendors.(Offshore and Onsite)

Test Lead

General Motors
09.2011 - 06.2013

BRITISH TELECOM-

  • Involved in Test Estimations, Test Planning, Review, Defect Management and Test environments set up.
  • Responsible for Test Approach documents, Test Scenarios/Scripts, Test Execution Cycle Plans.
  • Worked on Test Automation and maintained regression suite. Review and Approve all project Test Deliverable.
  • Responsible for Test Closure Memo’s, Status Reports, PIR and other interim deliverable.
  • Co-Ordination with the development   and Testing Team of different Application. Co-Ordination between different stake holders/Multiple vendors.(Offshore and Onsite)

Jr Project Manager

Leidos
12.2008 - 08.2013
  • Setting up of new Independent Testing Team with in Unisys ODC.
  • Resource identification, skill gap analysis and Training.
  • Involved in Test Estimations, Test Plan Preparation, Test Cases Creation, Execution, Review,  Defect Management  and Test environments set up.
  • Collect, analyze and report on quality metrics for all projects under quality control Provide QA support for all project estimation activities for their assigned applications Ensure that the project and test team members understand the quality management plan, test strategy, and quality processes

Project Lead

Deposco
08.2004 - 06.2009
  • Involved in Preparation of Test Plan and Test Case writing. Identification of test cases For Automation
  • Worked as Automation lead,analyzed test automation requirements of the customer and provide a comprehensive test automation solution, with a focus on covering substantial number of test areas.
  • Co-Ordination with the development and Testing Team of different Application. · Execution of test cases in End to End Environment (Verification in CRM, Billing,eCRM).
  • Worked as test co-coordinator between onshore and offshore team.

Education

Bachelor of engineering - Electronics and communication

Bheemanna Khandre Institute Of Technology
2002

Skills

  • VBScript
  • Data management
  • Quality Center
  • Agile Tool -RTC,Rally
  • Teradata
  • Automation Tool - QTP,Selenium
  • SOAP UI
  • Peoplesoft Application

Certification

SCRUM MASTER ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION™  from International SCRUM Institute 

AUTHORIZED CERTIFICATION ID : 34514638856519

Timeline

Qa Test Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2016 - Current

Test Manager

Leidos
07.2013 - 05.2016

Test Lead

General Motors
09.2011 - 06.2013

Jr Project Manager

Leidos
12.2008 - 08.2013

Project Lead

Deposco
08.2004 - 06.2009

Bachelor of engineering - Electronics and communication

Bheemanna Khandre Institute Of Technology
Inchara S